When it's 4th quarter in America

Man from Nowhere

...is now available on Netflix and Hulu! If you liked Taken or Oldboy, see this now. Gotta love Korean revenge cinema. Don't take my word for it, check out Gizmodo's take.



This Is Why You Don't Mess with the Quiet OnesAndrew Tarantola
Gizmodo.com

Imagine a man with Chuck Norris' tenacity, Jason Bourne's fighting prowess, Vlad the Impaler's viciousness, and Bryan Mills' motivation. That man pales compared to the single-minded destruction factory that is Tae-Sik Cha, a former CIA spook frantically searching for a missing child.

The Man from Nowhere follows Tae-Sik, a special agent turned pawn broker, as he is pulled into the seedy world of organized drug and organ trafficking. He's searching for a young girl and neighbor who's been kidnapped by a vicious gang after her mother had stolen their latest score. Despite his initial reticence, Tae-Sik grows into a John Wayne-caliber hero, rescuing children from servitude—or worse, being sold off piece-by-piece—and systematically dismantling the crime syndicate, as well as its members.

This isn't just some cheap knockoff of Taken. If anything, the reverse is true. Where Taken seemed to jump from plot point to plot point with little regard to consistency or character, The Man From Nowhere offers a masterfully compelling, nuanced story that, despite the ultraviolence, is surprisingly poignant. The acting is genuine—nothing like Alan Rickman's Hans—and the casting is spot-on.

I've been a huge fan of violent crime dramas and action flicks since I was a kid. And I thought I had seen just about every crazy fight scene premise there is to see—including Dae-su Oh bludgeoning his way through a hallway filled with two dozen gang members armed with nothing but a claw hammer (Oldboy, watch it)—but damn was I wrong. Watching Tae-Sik disassemble—literally—eight guys using nothing but a pen knife is simply jaw-dropping. Actually, I think I'll go ahead an put it on right now. [Netflix - Hulu]

Duh, Winning

Best Friends

You can't really state that your best friends with someone. You know, until you can say you're willing to be a mother lover. Andy Samberg and Timberlake do it again...and there's nothing more I need to say about that...

Twitter overload

Is anyone else suffering through Twitter overload? It seems like everywhere, people and organizations are saying follow us on twitter. Is it really that important to know what someone is thinking at that exact moment that can only be expressed in 140 characters or less? Isn't it infinitely more useful to follow someone's thoughts through an unlimited number of characters, embedded videos, and pasted links? I suppose you can't fault Jack Dorsey for creating it, as it appeared to be the inevitable evolution of our society. To take it to the next level, Conan O'Brien and the Tonight Show have to chip in.

This day in history....

Have you ever wondered what your great great grand parents thought about you?

Funny or Die, not just a website

Will Ferrell returns to SNL, and in true form provides us with another Celebrity Jeopardy. I could make comments and funny quips about it, but it's better to just let it speak for itself.
Potent Potables for $200....

Where are you?

I'm in a cubicle right now. I'm sure you are either on a couch of some sort, or a desk, wasting precious bandwidth that your employer works hard to pay for. And by works hard to pay for, I mean works you like a mule to pay for. But since you're reading this blog, I can hardly think of a larger waste of time for you to do at work. Unless of course you were writing this blog. In which case you'd be me. And as I'm sitting here, sending myself into an existential headspin...I wish I was on a boat.


And for good measure...here's the live performance. Ha! It sucks to not be on a boat. Oh wait...

Denis Leary speaketh truth

Here's the newest Hulu ad. And like Denis told me to do, I'm adding it to my "bliggity blog" and my "facey spaces". After all this, I am starting to wonder if Hulu is just here to take over the world.

So in 2007, a 36 year old executive (Jason Kilar) and a 26 year old developer (Eric Feng) created hulu with a team of 8 in less than 2 months. Hulu is projected to make about $175 million this year, up from $65 million with a 18% profit margin ($12 million). Basically, while I'm bliggity blogging, I have apparently been a "20 something year old Eric FAIL".

Now excuse me, I'm going to go find the Hulu app for my iphone...